The film starts with one Kyle Roberts arriving the town of Bywater to be its new sheriff. He then starts investigating the deaths in the swamp near it, which all seem to be linked to the Schist Petroleum oil rig nearby. It seems that the company's wrongdoings in the area has awakened its guardian...

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Adaptational Villainy Unlike his neutral comic counterpart, this Man-Thing is clearly a malevolent creature who fully intents to kill.

Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, F.A. Schist (here called Frederic Schist) was the closest thing that Man-Thing had to an Arch-Enemy. The film has him be the one responsible for Ted Sallis's death, and thus his subsequent transformation into Man-Thing.

Comicbook Adaptation: There was a three-part tie-in comicbook series released in 2004. A prequel to the film, it details insurance adjuster Nathan Mehr's investigation into the attacks against Schist's oil drilling equipment.

Hollywood Darkness: Played straight, averted and played straight again; most of the nightscenes take place in visible darkness, but when Roberts ventures into deeper parts of the swamp, the darkness is initially displayed more realistically, before returning to more visible output.

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